Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
From the very beginning the online apologetics and discernment ministry Apprising Ministries has been covering the slowly simmering Warrengate opened Dr. John Piper has made the ill-advised decision to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Today I was made aware of a very good commentary on this sad subject by Todd Friel at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been among those covering what appears now to be a still developing story concerning Emergent Church theologian Leornard Sweet, a close friend of Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren, and Calvary of Albuquerque (CoA) where Skip Heitzig is Senior Pastor. It begins when the respected online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research ran New Age Sympathizer Leonard Sweet To Speak […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4, ESV) Attacking The Church Now For Favor With The World? Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and lead pastor of The Journey, Darren Patrick wanted us […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The following quote has gotten emerging church folks all excited and they’re really tweeting it up. This “wisdom” comes from EC leader Samir Selmanovic: If there was a hell, Jesus would be there. Because Jesus is for the excluded. In other words Jesus would give up Heaven@samirselmanovic #trans4m However, those who still use their God-given reasoning […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries has pointed out before that Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr is the very popular Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven pastor of a megachurch known as Fellowship Church (FC) in Grapevine, TX. You may recall allegations of living an overly luxurious lfestyle by Young, Jr. from ABC affiliate WFAA News 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth. I showed you his response in Ed Young Jr […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 28, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 3, ESV) Jay Bakker Gets Ready For Prime Time Over this past year Apprising Ministries has been […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 28, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This is a brief follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Emerging Church Theologian Leonard Sweet To Speak At Pastor Skip Heitzig’s Calvary Chapel Church where I linked to New Age Sympathizer Leonard Sweet To Speak at Pastor Skip Heitzig’s Calvary Chapel Church from Lighthouse Trails Research. There we’re told: This coming June, Calvary Chapel Albuquerque (a veteran Calvary […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 28, 2010 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries wants you to know that Christian Post is reporting followers of the false world religion of Islam are again trying to get Franklin Graham removed from a National Prayer event: The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that is widely accused of having ties to terrorists, has called on congressional sponsors of the National Day of […]
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